WIFI Direct

[neil154]

My wife and I each have an S3 and we can connect by wifi direct. I also have a Dell Desktop which has wifi direct (Intel card 6230) which has wifi direct.



Our S3s can see the desktop PC but they will not connect. When I tap to connect it searches for a long time and then eventually gives me a message that connection failed.



Anyone have ideas on the problem?

 

[GSDer]

What happens if you try to initiate the connection from the PC?

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[neil154]

What happens if you try to initiate the connection from the PC?

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Nothing different, the connect fails. The PC does see the S3 and the S3 does see the PC, so discovery is not the problem.

 

[AxlMyk]

Do you have sharing turned on with the PC?

 

[neil154]

Do you have sharing turned on with the PC?

I have some sharing on but I do not have the root folder shared because that would leave my system very vulnerable. Do you really think I have to set the root folder (which would mean the entire hard drive) to shared?

 

[Suntan]

I've tried wifi direct with my N7 and it has been very sketchy at best. I could only get them to connect every once in a while and they would drop each other frequently. It was only once in 20 twenty that I could actually get them to transfer anything.

You can try sharing your whole drive for a little bit, just to try it, but don't be surprised if it still doesn't work.

-Suntan

 

[neil154]

I've tried wifi direct with my N7 and it has been very sketchy at best. I could only get them to connect every once in a while and they would drop each other frequently. It was only once in 20 twenty that I could actually get them to transfer anything.

You can try sharing your whole drive for a little bit, just to try it, but don't be surprised if it still doesn't work.
\Shari

-Suntan

Sharing did not help and I contacted Intel and of course they blamed it on my Norton Internet Security program so I disabled it but still o connection and no solution